Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent.

erect, 80–120 mm, glandular-pubescent.

basal and cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent;

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic-lanceolate, (1–)3–30(–50) × (0.4–)0.7–8(–20) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces minutely glandular-puberulent.

cauline, nearly even-sized or enlarging distally;

petiole absent or with petiole-like extension;

blade ovate to obovate, 12–41 × 5–21 mm, margins entire or crenate, plane, usually ciliate proximally, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-pubescent.

1–3 mm in fruit.

3–5 mm in fruit.

2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous.

2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous.

glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent.

puberulent distally.

magenta to purplish, dark line often extending onto each abaxial lip lobe from throat, palate ridges yellow with red-purple speckling and border, throat floor villous with hairs extending onto abaxial lip, tube 1.1–1.9 mm diam. at filament insertion, tube-throat 11–15 mm, limb 8–14 mm diam., usually, rarely not, bilabiate.

throat magenta, abaxial lip magenta, adaxial lip whitish, palate ridges not seen, tube-throat 20–23 mm, limb 4–5 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes of abaxial lip smaller than adaxial.

symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 6–9 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex acute-apiculate, acuminate, or attenuate, ribs dark green or reddish, intercostal areas whitish.

distinctly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, 18–21 mm, glandular-pubescent, lobes subequal, apex acute, ribs usually green, intercostal areas whitish.

8–12 mm.

not seen.

included or exserted, ciliate.

(distal pair) nearly exserted, glabrous.

exserted, lobes equal.

exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 6–8 times adaxial.

= 16.